Opinion category, Page 394
Letter to the editor: Babies have no choice
I agreed with letter-writer Wanda Rader that it’s “A sad time for women in our world” (May 23, TribLIVE), especially in the Middle East, until she mentioned Roe v. Wade and her being a feminist. That’s when my temper flared! Does she condone babies being aborted, killed and dismembered, with...
Letter to the editor: Shame on those opposing sensible gun reform
Shame on the NRA and the gun lobbies. Shame on all the spineless politicians who take blood money from them. When the forefathers enacted the Second Amendment, they could never have envisioned the weapons we have now. Weapons that have no other purpose than to shoot as many people as...
Letter to the editor: ‘Liberal’ sounds like what we all believe
I’m a 78-year-old liberal and proud of it. I read the piece “What liberal really means” (May 10, TribLIVE), written by my favorite columnist, Leonard Pitts Jr. I want to thank him for his views because they are exactly where a liberal stands. If you look up the word “liberal”...
Letter to the editor: Why can’t we all just get along?
“When your home is ruined by other people, you leave.” This was my husband’s closing remark during our last household debate. “I brought this up four years ago … life is becoming untenable here,” he says. I feel anguish. Certainly, it pales in comparison to that of Buffalo, N.Y., and...
Lori Falce: What’s the real outcome of Depp-Heard trial?
Our long national nightmare is over. The Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial has come to an end. OK, I’m going to confess. I have been caught up in the weeks of testimony. The drama. The endless analysis of movie stars emoting in a courtroom and just as endless criticism of lawyers’...
Letter to the editor: Charles Koch’s plan for public education
Charles Koch of the Koch brothers is part of the uber-wealthy with a net worth of over $63 billion. He spends millions to influence our government, and they gave $20 million to get President Trump’s tax cuts passed. The money was well invested, for in 2018 alone, the brothers saved...
Letter to the editor: Why is Biden trying to destroy us?
I look at this president and ask myself why anyone who has been able to live a lifestyle envied by millions would be doing everything in his power to destroy the people who enabled him to live such a lifestyle. Our IRAs are in dire straits with the Dow Jones...
Laurels & lances: Honor, celebration and relaxation
Laurel: To giving honor. Across the region, this week began with solemn celebrations remembering the commitment and sacrifice of fallen soldiers. Memorial Day was commemorated with parades, with services and with a blizzard of red, white and blue decorations at area cemeteries. Even the mothers who lost their soldier children...
Geralyn Ritter: Balancing needs and risks in pain management
Recently, the CDC published proposed new clinical practice guidelines for the prescribing of opioids. These update the agency’s 2016 guidelines intended to address the crisis of addiction and overdoses. Unfortunately, the 2016 guidelines also caused many physicians to throw well-managed pain patients off their medications, and a significant number of...
Letter to the editor: We need a return to law and order
How sad for this country when leftist liberal Democrats resort to violence when decisions are not favorable to their liberal agenda. It is despicable what one activist group has done against the six conservative Supreme Court justices by revealing their home addresses, which may create fear and potential violence against...
Letter to the editor: Biden should reverse direction on fossil fuels
Can our rapidly escalating rate of inflation of prices actually destroy our economy, the world’s strongest? Fuel prices at the pump for cars, trucking, farm machinery, airlines, home heating and fuels used in the manufacture of plastics, fertilizers and consumer goods and foods are skyrocketing. This follows President Biden doing...
Editorial: Without gift ban, bribery is all but legal in Pennsylvania
Everyone knows what a bribe is. It’s the little tit-for-tat that greases the wheels. It’s an enticement that muffles the opposition. Sometimes it’s money. Sometimes it’s an opportunity. Sometimes it’s even legal. Slip a bill to a host at a restaurant for a good table. No problem. But sometimes it’s...
Letter to the editor: Republicans supporting liars
Words matter. Truth matters more. I learned this decades ago at my mother’s knee. Many Republicans seem to have missed these lessons. Continuing fealty to a defeated, twice- impeached, thrice- married, womanizing, lying, foul-mouthed former president and confessed assaulter, and supporting candidates of his choosing, brings shame to a once-proud GOP. In...
John Stossel: Government to blame for formula shortage
Parents still struggle to find baby formula. The left and most media (sorry, same thing?) blame “corporate power run amok.” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says, “There might be a need for indictment!” They blame Abbott Laboratories, because it shut down a Similac plant. The Food and Drug Administration says unsanitary...
Jonah Goldberg: Republican voters — not NRA — are driving GOP’s gun agenda
In 2020, Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana was the top recipient of money from members of the “gun rights” industry. According to Open Secrets, his campaign received a total of $142,653 for the 2019-20 cycle. That put the so-called gun lobby at 33 on the list, far behind other industries...
SpearIt: Shootings proclaim war on terror is dead
In the years following the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the United States embarked on an all-scale effort to combat terrorism. However, the primary focus of those efforts was Muslims, both at home and abroad. Ignored in the process were threats posed by domestic militias and white supremacy groups. Rather...
Letter to the editor: Burned twice by Hempfield
I’ve read about Hempfield Area School District’s plan to move students around and begin a multimillion-dollar overhaul of the high school (“Hempfield School Board decides to tear down existing high school to its bare bones, building up from there,” March 8, TribLIVE). I wonder what it’s going to cost me....
Letter to the editor: We need prayer back in schools
In her column “Stop telling me what won’t work” (May 26, TribLIVE), Lori Falce, community engagement editor, explains how upset she is with people who constantly comment that suggestions to stop school shootings won’t work, so nothing gets done. Her closing comment, “Start telling me what might keep me from...
Letter to the editor: Some thoughts from the last century
These are some thoughts I think I thought. I have used up most of my first 100 years on Earth. It hasn’t been all peaches and cream; we have had the setbacks most families have — leukemia, colon cancer, bypass surgery. But thanks to my wife’s faith, we have overcome...
Editorial: De’Avry Thomas won’t be the last victim
Violence grabs attention the more graphic and awful and unthinkable it is. The Uvalde, Texas, shooting that left 19 kids ages 9 to 10 and two teachers dead at Robb Elementary and injured at least 17 others is the most glaring and timely example. It is the most recent terrible...
Letter to the editor: Hypocrisy of the right
How obvious is the hypocrisy of Fox commentators and many Republican legislators? The emails and recordings, now public, from Jan. 6, 2021, say it all. This from the people who claim they’re the “moral authority,” the holier than thou club. They, together, blame Democrats for moral decay in America? Yet,...
Letter to the editor: Speaking up for vulnerable is the Christian way
In response to Dave Ninehouser’s letter “Jesus never preached about abortion”: Jesus also never preached about drug cartels or nuclear war, which are evils that plague everyday society. Ninehouser seems elated to make his point that abortion was an accepted practice in Rome as if Rome was anything but a...
Leonard Pitts Jr.: ‘Who will be the last to die?’
“Whose blood will spill, whose heart will break? Who’ll be the last to die for a mistake?” — Bruce Springsteen, “Last To Die” And once again: Why? It’s the question we always find ourselves asking in moments like this, the understanding we always seek as bodies lay strewn and the...
TiffanyAnn Goodson: How can pro-lifers vote against feeding babies?
My 8-month-old daughter, Jayde, was born with a growth restriction. She weighs just 13 pounds — no more than a 3-month-old. She sees a pediatric nutritionist and eats a specialized formula that provides 30 calories per ounce in hopes of getting her on the elusive growth curve. Jayde was crawling...
Stacey Hannem and Christopher Schneider: Combating the politicization of sexual misconduct
In October of 2016, a Washington Post headline referred to the presidential race as the “rape election.” The numerous sexual misconduct allegations against a presidential candidate, and the ubiquity of discussions of sexual violence in the context of that election were unprecedented. However, the election of Donald J. Trump, and...
